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"Why do we tie the knot?"

Sean wonders why it is that we say that we 'tie the knot' when we marry.

"Why is it that we say that we 'tie the knot' when we marry?" Sean asks.

"Way back if there was no priest or pastor," says a text messager, "you would be hand-tied. The couple would be tied together. The head of the girl's family would tie a piece of cloth around the man and wife's hands. That meant they were married."

"Och," Sean says. "I don't like that. Girls do you like that?"

Emma doesn't like it. Janet never heard. She was talking on the phone.

"I saw a wedding in Cyprus," says Ron in Belfast, "The bride and the groom had floral garlands on their hands with ribbons hanging down, and the priest tied ribbons around the couple. So thinking about that, maybe, they did actually tie a knot to tie them together."

"No, I don't like that either. I'm not married to either of those."

But he considers Bl谩ith铆n's suggestion a bit more favourably.

"I was at a druid wedding," says Bl谩ith铆n, "and they tied the knot with their two hands, and they have to take it off, without removing the knot. Then they put it in a box so that the knot will never be undone, and if it does get untied, that's the end of the marriage."

With music from Hal Ketchum, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets, Carlene Carter, Tom Petty, and more.

56 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Jun 2021 15:04

Music Played

  • Elton John

    Rocket Man

  • Hal Ketchum

    Small town Saturday Night

  • Chuck Berry

    Johnny B Goode

  • Bill Haley

    Rock Around The Clock

  • Tom Petty

    Big Weekend

  • Carlene Carter

    Come On Back

  • k.d. lang

    Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes

  • The Drifters

    I've Got Sand In My Shoes

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Spanish Eyes

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Break My Mind

  • Johnny Cash

    The Rebel Johnny Yuma

  • Ottilie Patterson

    Let Him Go

  • Joe Dolan

    I Love You More & More

  • Brian Coll

    成人快手town On The Foyle

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Jun 2021 15:04